STUMP UP FOR TREES

Registered charity 1188226 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement in particular but not exclusively by promoting and enabling the planting and successful management of trees and development of diverse natural habitats, and;The advancement of education in particular but not exclusively by the provision of information and activities increasing knowledge of trees, diverse habitats and environmental prot

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING AND ENABLING THE PLANTING AND SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF TREES AND DEVELOPMENT OF DIVERSE NATURAL HABITATS, AND;THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ACTIVITIES INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF TREES, DIVERSE HABITATS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Monmouthshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£437k
Latest spending
£241k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £827,123 in total net assets, with £621,814 in unrestricted general funds and £192,668 in designated funds for future tree planting commitments. The trustees report that these reserves exceed their stated policy target of six months' overhead expenditure (approximately £109,000), placing the charity in a secure position to commit to longer-term projects.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of overhead expenditure (reserves figure: £622k)
“The Trustees require a minimum of 6 months of overhead expenditure to be kept in the unrestricted reserve fund. This would equate to approximately £109 000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 250
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 250
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 250
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stump Up For Trees (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£437k£241k
30/06/2024£434k£174k
30/06/2023£244k£111k
30/06/2022£219k£54k
31/03/2021£116k£23k

Common questions

Is STUMP UP FOR TREES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds £827,123 in total net assets, with £621,814 in unrestricted general funds and £192,668 in designated funds for future tree planting commitments. The trustees report that these reserves exceed their stated policy target of six months' overhead expenditure (approximately £109,000), placing the charity in a secure position to commit to longer-term projects. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds STUMP UP FOR TREES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name STUMP UP FOR TREES as a grant recipient include THE FREDERICK MULDER FOUNDATION, ETHEL AND GWYNNE MORGAN TRUST, THE MARK LEONARD TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FREDERICK MULDER FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
ETHEL AND GWYNNE MORGAN TRUSTFY2025£2kEnvironment
THE MARK LEONARD TRUSTFY2022£1kTowards Planting One Million Trees in the Brecon Beacons area

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund15/08/2024£20kOrganising our nursery and volunteers
The National Lottery Community Fund13/04/2023£10kStump Up For Trees Community Tree Nursery; access and improvements

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
STUMP UP FOR TREES£437k—0above—no doubt
INTERNATIONAL TREE FOUNDATION FY2025£1.4m—0above—no doubt
THE TREE COUNCIL FY2025£2.8m——unclear—no doubt
PROTECT EARTH FY2025£392k—0above—no doubt
EARTH TRUST FY2025£2.6m——unclear—no doubt
Plymouth Tree People FY2026£148k—0below—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.